Welcome to London City Airport, I've just arrived from Edinburgh,
I've just touched down and this is my first time in London in 19 months, so I'm really
excited to have a walk around and see what's changed fancy joining me, welcome to RogVLOG.
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first thing we're going to do is get on the docklands light railway and head
into London to Bank station,
these fully automatic trains leave for Bank station every 10 minutes,
I spotted the Emirates Airline which is
a cable car system that takes people across to the o2 Arena,
here, I caught my first glimpse of a London skyscraper one of the many fabulous shapes
you can see, that's when I decided to do a walkabout about the skyscrapers,
as we approach bank station the DLR dives down underground into a tunnel,
and after a few twists and turns here we are arriving at Bank station,
I must admit I'm not a massive fan of the Underground, but I do love that moment when
you come up the steps out of the depths and then see the landmarks all around you,
off in the distance, there's our first London skyscraper the
fabulously shaped Walkie-Talkie building,
and there above the Royal Exchange building, to the right, is the Cheese Grater,
well I have to say I was hoping for a glorious sunny day so I could just
walk around and just have a look at what's changed over the last 19 months,
but it's raining and I haven't even brought an umbrella with me,
the Royal Exchange building contains shops for some very high-end brands,
fancy some fancy macarons, maybe I shouldn't have
had that bacon roll after all, and left room for one of those,
does anybody use traditional red telephone boxes anymore,
the skyscraper ahead of us with the pointed top is affectionately known as the Scalpel,
and here's a Pub I've been to many times for some excellent quiz nights,
what is so noticeable in London more than ever before is the incredible comparison between
old-style buildings and new modern ones, that's Tower 42, one of the oldest skyscrapers in London,
but look at this one next to it that is huge I can't even see the top of it,
and here's the multicoloured entrance to that tower 22 Bishopsgate,
and there's the Gherkin of course and once upon a time that used to
be one of the most unique buildings on the London skyline now it's just one of many,
another amazing mix of old and new contrasts this old church
with the Scalpel building behind it, and to the left the Lloyd's building,
the building in the foreground is just a 100 Bishopsgate
behind it the famous Heron Tower, also known as the Salesforce Tower,
and this curvy building has one of my favourite nicknames of all the Can of Ham,
I must admit I was a little bit nervous about coming down here today,
but you know what, now I'm here and I've seen all these fabulous buildings some of
which are now complete, whereas before they were half-constructed, I just feel really invigorated,
here at Liverpool Street station, we get a great view of that skyline we've
just walked past the Heron Tower, 100 Bishopsgate, 22 Bishopgate and Tower 42,
still, plenty of other building work going on though it never stops does it,
well it's nearly time for my meeting, so I just need to finish
by nipping through Broadgate Circus, and then I'll be there
this place gets absolutely buzzing in the evening, well at least it did
before the pandemic, and I'm sure that everything's getting back to normal now,
oh I feel as if this sign is directed at me,
well it's nearly time for my meeting so that means that my little walk around London must come to an
end, but you know what I've really enjoyed wandering around and taking in the skyline,
and the atmosphere is so great to be back in a big city, I mean Edinburgh is beautiful,
Edinburgh is superb, but London, wow it's just so big and it's so good
to be back, thank you so much for watching this episode of RogVLOG,
until the next video remember there's always something to see so get out there and find it